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    [Noun]  | "what*cha*ma*call*it" | \ ˈ(h)wä-chə-mə-ˌkȯ-lət \


    1: something that is hard to classify or whose name is unknown or forgotten : thingamajig


    Origin: 1910 ;

     Alteration of what you may call it;

    [Noun]  | "whatchamacallit" 


    1: a small article the actual name of which one either does not know or cannot remember;


      * e.g., " ... I need one of those whatchamacallits to connect the two patch cords "



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     [ "whatchamacallit" ]

    1: Something you can't remember the name of.

      * e.g.,  ... You know that thing , that whatchamacallit . 

     [ "whatchamacallit" ]

    1: An object that you dont know the name of.

      * e.g.,  ... Yes he did wear a whatchamacallit. 

     [ "whatchamacallit" ]

    1: A fast and easy way to say "what do you call it?" Can be used to describe a person,place or thing.

      * e.g.,  ... "Hey, you know were i can get a soda?" 

     [ "whatchamacallit" ]

    1: when you forget something and you don't know what to call it!

      * e.g.,  ... "Isn't he, uh, you know, whatchamacallit?" "Gay?" 

     [ "Whatchamacallit" ]

    1: A word used when the actual name of the object in question will not come to mind. Very versatile but often very vague. It is derived from the phrase "what-you-may-call-it" which can be found in T. H. White's The Once and Future King.

      * e.g.,  ... Claire- "Hey, Adam, hand me the- the- you know, the whatchamacallit." 

     [ "Whatchamacallit" ]

    1: NOUN - A term, used to replace a noun when it won't come to mind.

      * e.g.,  ... I went to the restaurant and ordered the plate with shrimp and the other side...whatchamacallit. 

     [ "Whatchamacallits" ]

    1: Noun used to describe those little things that you never know precisely how to express.

      * e.g.,  ...  Do you call common objects whatchamacallits? ... 

     [ "Whatchamacallit" ]

    1: a candy bar, duh

      * e.g.,  ... im going into the store to buy a whatchamacallit 

     [ "Whatchamacallit" ]

    1: Something you call when you don't remember its real name.

      * e.g.,  ... "Oh hey! Isn't that a whatchamacallit?" 

     [ "Whatchamacallit" ]

    1: An awesome candy bar, very, very sexified. Peanutbutter... Caramel... chocolate.... mmmmmm.

      * e.g.,  ...  Mmmmmm, whatchamacallit 


     [ "Whatchamacallit" ]

    2: Also, its that thing that you can never remember the name for.

      * e.g.,  ...  GAH! whats that thing... you know, the whatchamacallit? 

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